A family name on East 7th Avenue, Mount Pleasant, Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise
The Wrights
In the city directories 1940 · three people at two addresses
The directories print three people named Wright at two addresses in 1940, all on East 7th Avenue. No first name or initials tie one address to the other: we can't tell if they're one family. The directories print the name on 137 other streets too, all listed on the Wright name's own page.
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Where the Wrights lived
- 1
1860 East 7th Avenue
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- L A Wright 1940
- J Howard Wright, a salesman 1940
Next door in 1940: Rev M A Talnicoff at 1856. The block, door by door
- 2
2263 East 7th Avenue
Grandview-Woodland, 1940
- M J Wright, a switchman at the National Harbours Board 1940
Next door in 1940: G A Daw at 2257 and T W Annan at 2281. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for two of the three: a salesman and a switchman.
Their neighbourhoods
The addresses are in Grandview-Woodland (2). Each neighbourhood's page shows its trades, its people and every street in it, the way the directory printed them.
The story, address by address
In 1940 the directory lists L A Wright at 1860 East 7th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Louis A Wright there as the householder, with J Howard Wright, a salesman. In 1940 the directory lists M J Wright at 2263 East 7th Avenue; the 1940 line is marked *: some member of the family owns the property, to the best of our knowledge (the directory's own mark). The 1940 name section lists Milton J Wright there as the householder, a switchman at the National Harbours Board.
Today
1860 East 7th and 2263 East 7th still have their buildings from before 1946.
Every line as printed
All 5 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Wright L A1860 East 7th, p. 190
- Wright J Howard slsmn1860 East 7th, p. 676
- Wright Louis A1860 East 7th, p. 676
- *Wright M J2263 East 7th, p. 190
- Wright Milton J swchmn NHB2263 East 7th, p. 676
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Wrights
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Wright name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Another name, or a house
Sources
Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line: the street sections for 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1940 and 1945, and the name section for 1930 and 1940 where we've read it (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages, since a family's name was often spelled differently from one year to the next; one name can still be several families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. Many Chinese, Japanese and other residents weren't named by the canvassers, so they can't be listed by name: their houses' pages say where. More family names under W. Want a name removed? Tell us.